i cant watch movies on my laptop!!!!!

Q:i cant watch movies on my laptop!!!!!

i want to be able to watch movies on my laptop but i cant.when i put the disk in it used to come up with "what do you want to do with this disk" and it would never load and it wanted me to download a app to play the movie.i just tried to play a movie on my laptop but when i put the dsk in nothing happened, so i went it files and my laptop started loading really fast and making lots of noise. when i went into the DVD file in files the only thing that came up was audio and video. i clicked on video but it came up with a whole bunch of other files and when i click on the first on nothing happened. it would be really awesome if you can help me solve this problem. Cheers,Grace

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HI @gracechov, Welcome to the HP Forum! It is a terrific place to find answers and tips! For you to have the best experience in the HP forum I would like to direct your attention to the HP Forums Guide. First Time Here? Learn How to Post and More . When posting it is important to include your precise model of HP notebook and the operating system you are running to help us to help you. What is your model of HP notebook? HP Notebook PCs - How Do I Find My Model Number, Serial Number or Product Number?. What operating system are you running? When you tried to play the movie and you saw the option to download a program, what was the program? If you are running Windows 8 or 10 as they don't include built- in support for playing DVDs, you may need to install a program. For troubleshooting purposes, I will assume that you are running Windows.Have you done all your Windows updates?Have you run the Windows troubleshooter?Have you run the HP Support Assistant?This link may help in the meantime. HP Notebook PCs - Playing DVD or BLU-Ray Movies with PowerDVD. I will wait for your reply. To express appreciation for my post please click the ?Thumbs Up Icon?. If my post resolves the issue you are experiencing, please click "Accept as Solution" to help others find what worked for you!

I am trying to watch a movie from the website www.watch-movies.net , I have my S-Video Cable attached from my laptop to my satellite receiver. When I press my Function F8, the error message that I receive is, "No External Display Attached."

What step(s) am I missing?

(I run O/S Vista Home on my Dell Inspiron 1420)

Thanks a Bunch!

A:Watch-Movies from laptop to TV

This is not allowed here at TSG. The website you posted has illegal movie downloads.

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I have a laptop with movies that I would like to watch on my television. My TV is a Sony Bravia KDL-46S2000. It has a VGA slot in the back of the TV and the TV's maximum resolution is 1080i.

After I connect the VGA cable from the laptop to the television, what do I do? I dont see anything.

-Thanks in advance-Sam

A:use my tv to watch movies from my laptop...

on the laptop you need to send the signal to the VGA port to do that usually on laptops you need to press the FN key and then F4 {but the F key may be different - look for a figure like a TV} each time you press it it will toggle between three setting {not necessarily in this order}1) Laptop screen only2) laptop and VGA Port3) VGA port only

you will also need to link the sound - so a jack plug 2.5mm or 3.5mm depends on what your headphone socket on laptop is - to what ever audio inputs you have TV - probably Phono RCA - coloured red and white for left and right channel

Hi, Ya how come I can't watch my movies on my laptop.I can on my home computer after I downloaded a program called Videolan, but when I put the same program on my laptop I get an error message saying "Unable to open 'dvd://D"I have a Pen. 4 Dell Laptop with of course a DVD player, and don't know a whole lot about compters.Can anyone fix this for me or maybe know of a free program that I can download that lets you play movies on a laptop.Gusline.

Hello,, I'M Dennis i have hp pavillion g4-2120tx laptop with amd radeon hd 7600 series graphics card and intel hd 4000 graphics.can i watch 3d movie on my laptop and if yes what sort of 3d glasses should i have . Thanks

Can I watch movies I've downloaded on my laptop on my TV by putting them on a USB stick? Or would I need a long HDMI cable? I'm crap with tech stuff. I wanted to do it wirelessly if possible? The files are very large, what GB USB stick would I need?

Hi everybody...thanks for all ur help on previous topic....Looks like I posted this on the wrong subject, but I don't know how to re-post it in the correct plkace...so I need some help here...When I try to watch a Blue-ray movie using the Mediasmart software included in my laptop I can't watch the movie, but just listen to it. I treid using Win Media Player, but it looks it doesn't recognize it..

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/documen...=reg_R1002_USENcheck this out from hp.sounds like the codec isn't loaded for windows media player but using this has helped with others trying to get mediasmart to work.

I'm trying to connect my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop to a Sony KDF-E50A12U TV. I have connect both units with the correct cords, but every time I press the switch screen buttons on the computer, it freezes & crashes. I know the cords are correct, because if I press them while the computer is loading up, it shows the load up screen on the big tv, but as soon as the computer has finished its start up, it switches back to the computer screen and then when I press the switch screen buttons again, it freezes/ crashes. Does anyone know how i can do this?

I need help watching movies on my computer. When the movie plays there's a time delay in the audio and video..... the video is seconds or more slower then the audio so the picture doesnt match with the sounds your hearing....???? . Its really really annoying please could someone tell me why this is happening????? What do i do????? Thank you anyone that helps me out!!!!!!

Hi i have an HP pavilion zv6000 running windows xp. Whenever i try to watch movies using gom player or any other player my computer becomes extremely slow with 100% of system resources being used or just shuts down. I don't have alot of programs installed and have avg antivirus. I recently reformatted my computer before then i never had this problem. any help would be appreciated. Thanks

what should i do with my media player cause i cant watch anything on my mediaplayer!

A:cant watch movies

Hi mikell,

What do you mean you can't watch movies? What file format are you trying to watch? What program are you using as your 'mediaplayer'?

If you are trying to watch DVD movies (VOB MPEG) and are trying to use Windows Media Player, the fix is simple. Either download a codec pack for use with WMP (such as CCCP) or use an alternative player like VLC.

Inserting a DVD movie now gives me this error: Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because there is a problem with digital protection between your DVD drive, decoder, or video card. Try installing an updated driver for your video card.

I've installed updates from nVidia 3 times. No luck. Have Windows set to automatically update. Tried downloading new updates, but it says there aren't any so I assume I am up-to-date on all updates.

I don't believe I have watched a DVD since my last Windows reinstall. Is it possible I still need to download some other driver(s)?

Don't know what info on my system you need, but I am using Windows XP Home on a Velocity Micro Gamer's Edge DualX system. Video card is a 256MB nVidia GeForce 7800GT. Have 2GB (2 x 1024) DDR400 of memory. Any other information you need to help?

For some reason every time I try to play a movie in my laptop I can hear the sound but can't see the image. I tried with media player, quicktime (which freezes) and with Intervideo WinDVD.
Some help with that please?

A:Can't watch movies in my computer

What type of movie, where did you get it from? If it requires a codec that you do not have it will do that

First to introduce myself, I am a total beginner to the computer scene. I'm am getting much better, but it can get frustrating.

Anyway... my first problem.

I like to watch movies on http://themoviepit.org/, but lately the veoh ones quit working. Can anybody help? Could this be a virus? These are the best quality ones and I hate having to settle for second best when I want to kick back and enjoy a movie....

I am having a rather frustrating problem. After downloading full length feature movies from the net, I cannot open them. When I attempt to open them I get messages such as "video not available, cannot find decompressor." At first I thought it may be file specific, and that certain files were bad, but it has now happened with every full length video I try to play. I have the newest versions of quicktime and windows media player. What can I do? Are there other players I can download for free that will play avi., asf, or other video files?

I just been introduced to HuLu.com, I want to hook up my laptop to the TV to watch the movies. I connected the two with a VGA cable but the only thing that shows on the TV is my desktop wallpaper, no icons or anything else. Anybody have any idea where to go from here?

A:Trying to watch HuLu movies on TV

Right click the Desktop/Properties/Settings/Advanced go to the dual display and choose to Mirror the display not to extend it. You have the second display (TV) set as an extended desktop.

I was wondering do you know what website that I can watch tv shows and movies? I tryed to get my media player to work so that i can watch a dvd movie and I even downloaded media player codec pack and still nothing. Since i am online in class all day it will be good to watch some movies or tv sometimes and i will not have cable for a couple of weeks please help!

A:watch movies and tv shows

For movies - http://www.netflix.com/ (you have to be in the USA)

Otherwise - look at the websites of your local TV networks. Most of them nowdays stream their shows online about a day or two after they show on TV.

Ok, the title is kind of misleading. What I have is a Dell Inspiron 8200 with Windows XP 2002, service pack 3, pentium 4 processor 1.70Ghz, 384 MB Ram. I also have VLC media player, realplayer, Windows Media Player, and WinDVD.

My laptop is connected to my flatscreen HDTV via VGA cable. (I think that's the one that plugs into most monitors, anyway...)

My flatscreen is a Toshiba Regza 37HL67S.

I have successfully configured the laptop so that it displays on the TV by reducing the resolution to 1024 x 768 and making the refresh rate 60 hz via the Display properties.

If you're still with me HERE'S MY PROBLEM: DVD'S and many movies that I play on my laptop to not display on my TV. I can see them just fine on the laptop screen but when I try to play them on the TV the screen either goes blank, or the window that is showing the movie goes black. There's something incompatible with my settings what the TV can display I just don't know what it is or where to look. I've consulted the owners manual for the television to no avail. I would appreciate any assistance anyone could offer. Thank you very much for your time and effort.13thLetterMilton, FL.

I won a prize as HP Pro tablet from my company last year. It's well designed for watching movie and playing games. However, I also found a problem while using this Windows OS tablet, which is that I can't put my iTunes movies on this tablet and watch them freely. I was told that the movies are DRM protected. By searching via Google, I know all iTunes movies are copy protected and can be watched via Apple products only. But I also found a way to get rid of the DRM technology and make the iTunes movies DRM free. A third party software - TunesKit iTunes DRM removal tool is needed. I'm not sure if I can use it. I live in Canada. Maybe it would against the low by using this cool application. But I really need it, even it will cost me nearly $45. Is anyone there who knowes a cheaper or a legal way to resolve this problem?

A:Is there anyone who knows how to watch iTunes movies on HP T...

Hi, DRM protected means DRM protected. Please try: https://www.lifewire.com/best-drm-removal-programs-2438495 BUT why bother. You should be able to watch movies from other sources , Regards.

Can u tell me a free good working program through which i could burn and watch in my table dvd player (television), my downloaded(from internet) movies?Exept Nero of course (its not free).I used to use WinDvd but seems not to work properly.

The video quality in 3.5 inch screen is perfect, you never see it in other portable devices. You can enjoy your favorite films; see TV plays whenever and wherever; enjoy videos; play music. It takes high technology to allow you operate your screen freely. You can set broad display or cancel whole mode. Iphone displays computer videos also need iTunes software (download from iphone site) to make them in-phase with iphone. The files format must be iphone supports. If iphone canít support the video format, then iTunes will tell you that it canít play videos in phase. You can use iTunes to convert format. You can go iphone site to see more information. You can go here to learn more information. It provides you more methods as following: change iphone wallpaper; youtube videos online; transform your favorite video image to wallpaper and so on. In addition, there are lots of wonderful iphone wallpapers, you can free download them. http://www.xlinksoft.com/iPhone-Video-Converter/free-iphone-resource-free-iphone-Wallpapers.html

Ok, my apology for wanting to post this question, which may be considered inappropriate for many different reasons - and yes, an apology by itself does not imply it's okay (or not) to watch movies online, certainly not justify any crime I might have committed -.But I am simply interested in/worried about cybersecurity.Sony's cyberattack resulted in many of their movies inadvertently released online. One secruity expert was quoted saying (paraphrased here) - it's NOT SAFE to watch those movies online, as the longer you stay on one particular website, the more danger your computer will be exposed to.To a computer user like me who knows nothing technical about security, this begs the question - is it unsafe to watch movies online despite the security setting (firewall, real-time anti-virus, real-time anti-malware etc). (dpes watching movies online mean running some video streaming program (in javascript?????) in the background of the internet browser ? ).

Any insight to share will be greatly appreciated.

A:is it safe to watch movies online?

So this question can go a couple ways. Watching movies via a legal source is perfectly safe (e.g Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime etc.). These sites have good security (Amazon probably has some of the best) and you really don't have to worry much about it. The way the movies are transmitted and viewed can be attacked, like the Microsoft Silverlight that Netflix uses could have a security hole that won't be fixed til you update it on your end (as long as Microsoft fixed the issue). So as far legal sources go, its perfectly safe to watch movies and TV shows online.

Now if you are talking means that aren't so legal, where people have uploaded them on sketchy sites and you are viewing them. Yeah those aren't so safe. They like to put viruses right in the code of the website, or they like to automatically download something without you even saying you wanted to. So no, that method is not safe.

I am curious, do you know where you read that article with the security expert? I would like to take a gander at it. I am assuming he/she saying its not safe to watch them online is meaning the not so legal ways.

This is an ongoing problem that is annoying the hell out of me. When I click on a media link such as MPG or WMV file, Windows Media Player Opens but its non-responding undefinetely. Task Manager shows the process is sucking memory and cpu... If I Save this movie to hard disk and open it, it plays fine... I have scoured all forums for a clean and would like to save a machine rebuild.

My VHS plays movies but the picture is intermitent. Is that copy protection? Is there any way to watch my commercial VHS movies on the computer? The VCR runs normaly. The computer shows TV and home movies ok.

i have toshiba qosmio f 750-M14L for some reason i don't have blu-ray driver installed and i don't have toshiba dvd player installed i tried to download from the website but when i try to install them it tells me that we didn't find our driver and it just abort. it used to work perfectly 1 year ago as i remember. pls help me

I have an Acer CB3-531-C4A5 Chromebook and would like to be able to watch movies. I see that there is an integrated Media player with Google Chrome OS and I did try to watch a movie on Amazon.com. That worked fine. My question is can I purchase an external CD/DVD drive that will work with the Chromebook so that I can watch movies from DVDs? I presume that I cannot as the external drive would require software for the interface and being there is no operating system on the Chromebook I would guess that I can not use an external CD/DVD drive. Is this correct?

A:Can I use an external CD/DVD drive to watch movies...

According to Google's support site, USB CDROM and DVDROM (read-only) devices are compatible with Chromebooks. You will need to download a player from the Google store to play DVD's though.

Hello people. I see a nice work on your site!
I have a question you could help i suppose.

I am not very good on computer and technology stuff but i can do the basic things!

So thats my problem:
I have a Playstation 3 and i bought a hard disk of 1T so i can move the movies i download in my desctop to the playstation.
So i filled up the usb hard disk with movie but the PS3 doesnt recognise it at all. So i searched in the internet and read in general that i have to convert my hard disk to FAT32 and some other people said that in Windows XP (thats what i have in my desktop as well) cant do this for more than 32GB.

So my question is, . Do i have any chance to make the entire disk work at my PS3 by any way? If yes , can you please write me the steps to do that.?

i was told that i need to clean up my laptop because when i watch movies ( netflix nd youtube ) it is retained in history and can slow or clog up laptop, i dont know how to clear history ? also what is the rule with deleteting cookies

A:when i watch netflix movies and youtube do i need to clean ...

Hello, Thank you for posting in the HP Support forum. It is recommended that you regularly clean up unnecessary and temporary files from browser(s) and from other things. You do not need to do it every time you watch videos or every day but you can do it from time to time - e.g. once every week or once every two weeks, something like this. Here is how you can clean temporary files from Internet Explorer browser >> http://www.wikihow.com/Delete-Temporary-Internet-Files Here us how to clean up temporary files from Mozilla Firefox browser >> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/788241 In other browsers and general steps >> http://help.overdrive.com/customer/portal/articles/1481586 How to clean temporary files in Windows from Windows itself and other common applications.## Use built in WIndows Disk Clean Up tool## Use 3rd party free tool call CCleanerMore information >> http://www.howtogeek.com/125923/7-ways-to-free-up-hard-disk-space-on-windows/ Please, let me know if this helps and works for you.

I am not able to watch movies on my Media Player. It just appears blank and jumps chapters. Any suggestions?

A:Windows Media Player 11 to Watch Movies

hello,

this is a codec issue

i seggust that you download (K-Lite Codec Pk Full ) from (http://www.majorgeeks.com)

when you get there you will notice on the main page on the left a list of subcatagories / you will be lookin for multimedia

when installing the codec pk. you will want to leave everything set to default so do not adjust anything / now at the end of the install it will do a scan for corrupt or broken codecs , if it finds any it will if you want to replace then or remove them (say yes )

Hi,I used to watch movies for free on all movie sites using VZ, VBB, MV(megavideo) etc., But recently, I connected my PC to TV using hdmi cable and tried watching. First day it worked fine. But next day onwards, it is throwing the below message and i'm unable to watch movies. Can you please help?

"It has either been deleted by the uploader or is in breach of a copyright holder"

I have a plugin for my Windows Media Center that allows for downloading of Netflix movies from the watch it now service to watch later - NOT stripping the DRM, just storing it on your hard drive so you don't have to wait for it to stream when watching. It comes it pretty handy since I frequently don't have the time to sit down and watch an entire movie, and resuming a Netflix movie at a later time via streaming can be a pain if you need to fast forward a lot.

When I attempt to watch the downloaded movie, which is a DRM'ed .wmv file, it goes through the whole aquiring usage rights thing and recognizes my Netflix account and plays no problem.

What I'm wondering is this: doesn't Windows Media Player have an option to store licenses? And if so, shouldn't there be a way to play the downloaded Netflix files on my laptop even if I'm not on the internet? Sure would be handy to take on trips.

I was thinking something like: 1.) Download Netflix DRMed .wmv, 2.) Open the file on my laptop while connected to the internet to verify my Netflix account and obtain the proper license, 3.) Later come back to the same file while off the internet and use the backed up installed license to view. Of course, it doesn't actually work that way, or I wouldn't be posting this thread. I'm just wondering out loud if there is a way to actually accomplish this and still stay legal. Any thoughts?

A:Legally porting Netflix Watch Now movies

Just talking out of my port hole here but since this is not a case of general distribution DRM, Netflix can require account verification for each access. That way Netflix doesn't have to worry about any movie being distributed by individuals with not so sensible intentions and, its not even that so much as it satisfies the entertainment industry regarding the method of content distribution and the rights therein.

I need some help regarding my Notebook PC. It seem so to have a problem when i watch videos. It never fails; about 10 minutes into a movie the screen will freeze up and the audio keeps playing for about a minute The screen either goes black or I get Solid white fuzzies. I have tried pretty much everything. My graphics card drivers are all up to date. And it doesnt matter what program that i load the video in, such as VLC, Windows media Player, Winamp, Quicktime, nothing seems to work. I need help. I do appologize if this topic has been already brought up.

i was having this problem like for a month already. everytime i watch movies and playing draconis II and nba 2k10 i get a bsod most of the time. At first i was suspecting it was a hardware problem either the ram or the VC but i did tested my ram using the Memtest86 and i got no errors. and i was also thinking if its a hardware problem how come i can play games like NFS shift and Dragon Age Origin at high-medium settings for like 4-6hrs without any BSOD occurring? so i was suspecting now its a software issue. can anybody pls help me with my problem here..thank you.... heres my minidump....